Front End Engineer
Location: US, IL, Chicago
Department: Packback
Salary range: 60000-100000
Employment type: Full-time
Industry: Education Management
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
Founded By Entrepreneurs, For Entrepreneurs Catapult Chicago is the unique, digital start-up community located in the heart of Chicago’s River North neighborhood. Founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, Catapult Chicago is the only non-profit, 501(c)6, working space for Chicago start-ups that have demonstrated business traction. It is our mission to help grow the next generation of technology startups in Chicago. Catapult Chicago Adheres to 3 Core Values PASSIONThe success of our residents drives every decision at Catapult PEER SELECTIONGroup selection of the most talented, ambitious, and collaborative teams – those with business traction MARKET IMPACTSetting new examples of engagement with the business community

Job description:
Packback allows college students to "pay per use" for their digital textbooks by renting for $3-$5 per day, while enabling publishers to recoup revenue lost to the secondary used book market. Any money students spend on daily rentals can be directly converted towards an extended semester or year-long rental of that same digital title.Why?Textbook prices have risen 812% since 1978, while national college student debt has surpassed $1.2 trillion. The used book market has emerged as the go-to solution for college students seeking cheap textbooks. However, the used book market has fueled a drastic revenue situation in which publishers today lose $5.5 billion of the $8.2 billion high education textbook market.By offering an affordable alternative to the used book market, Packback allows students to save money and make timely purchasing decisions, while publishers recapture revenue lost to the used market.POSITIONThis tour of duty will primarily see you leading a project of translating the markup and styles of our current MVP to a responsive, optimized project. Beyond that, we hope that you will continue to identify opportunities for improvement within our projects and process, as well as promote the technical best practices and techniques that you learn along the way.There are plenty of technical acronyms in here, but fundamentally we’re looking for an intelligent person who possess an eagerness to learn new things, and the communication skills to be able to engage with non-engineering humans on rest of our team.As well as the technical knowledge, we need a person that gets it - a person who can figure things out for themselves but knows when to yell for help without hesitation.You should probably know about… - Working closely with backend engineers and UX designers - Semantically marked up HTML - CSS, including SASS - Responsive presentation frameworks such as Foundation or Bootstrap - JavaScript frameworks &amp; libraries such as AngularJS or #URL_b7bad8ac916069eadd573f035544c52dc3519a0ba054fb7ab1ff9ba3e1525399# - JavaScript unit testing tools - BDD best practices - Build and automation tools such as Bower, NPM, gulp - Git - Running a LAMP environment locallyWe also like talking to people who enjoy… - Architecting and developing complex JavaScript-powered applications - Development &amp; consumption of HTTP APIs - Google Apps &amp; APIs

Requirements:

Benefits:
Full Time$60K – $100K Salary0.2% – 0.5% Equity